Flood warnings remain across most of UK as MPs quiz Environment Agency chiefs

Police divers search for camper missing in Aberdeenshire and Newcastle estate residents flooded out for sixth time

Flood warnings remained in place across almost all parts of Britain on Wednesday, with the north-east of England worst hit overnight.

Torrential rain flooded out residents on one Newcastle estate for the sixth time in less than a decade, while police divers in Aberdeen joined the search for a missing camper thought to have been caught up in the floods that swept Aberdeenshire.